Tuesday, August 28, 2007

The Essential Pam Berry Compilation


The (Unofficial) Essential Pam Berry Compilation

I've been meaning to make this for a while now, and I finally remembered to get it together this past weekend and yesterday. To many, Pam Berry is a legend. To some, Pam Berry is just the name of of a Shins song (In her honor, of course), and to others, the name means nothing at all. Sad, too, considering that if there had been a royal court of American indiepop in 90s, Ms. Berry would surely have been the queen.

Overtime she has lent her dreamy vocal prowess the following bands: Glo-Worm, Black Tambourine, The Castaway Stones, The Shapiros, Belmondo, The Seashell Sea, Veronica Lake, The Pines, and Bright Coloured Lights; as well as also being a co-founder of the legendary Chickfactor zine, and doing many other cool things, like living in DC. I have some favorites, for sure, but to be quite honest, just about everything she's ever done is completely excellent by me. If you've heard some Pam Berry before, then hopefully there's some stuff on here that's new to you. If you've never heard Pam Berry before, then hopefully you find something to love on here. I love it all, and I hope that you do, too! P.S. Like always, it's tagged with artwork and as a compilation for ease of use :D

[ZIP]: The Essential Pam Berry Compilation (12 MP3s, 51mb) NEW LINK! 12/12/09

Tracklist:
01. Black Tambourine :: Throw Aggi Off The Bridge
02. The Shapiros :: Cry For A Shadow
03. Belmondo :: Sleepwatch
04. The Pines :: Milk Bar
05. Glo-Worm :: Wishing Well
06. Bright Coloured Lights :: Open Your Eyes
07. The Castaway Stones :: Sunday Came And Went
08. The Pines :: Aurora (The Cat's Miaow cover)
09. The Shapiros :: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (Shirelles cover)
10. Glo-Worm :: Downtown (Petula Clark cover)
11. Belmondo :: We'll Never Get To Paris Now
12. Black Tambourine :: By Tomorrow


Enjoy!

Other good things:
A Personal Affair With: Pam Berry
Interview in Tasty Fanzine

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19 Comments:

Blogger Ginny said...

Whyyyyyy thank you.

3:37 AM  
Blogger marathonpacks said...

Top notch, man. Thanks!

10:37 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Love you

xoxo

-Matt Picasso

11:34 AM  
Blogger serafinafly said...

wow...thanks so much! what a treat...

11:49 AM  
Blogger Dave Rawkblog said...

oh man, so excited to get home and download this

11:56 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is awesome. Thank you. Do you think "Sally Shapiro" is an homage to the Shapiros?

2:14 PM  
Blogger Matt said...

hey im not sure! you never know..

im glad youre all excited about this!!

2:48 PM  
Blogger Andrea said...

wow, what a perfectly marvelous (and long overdue) thing to do!

2:48 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Any photos of Pam?

5:46 PM  
Blogger Matt said...

photos of pam proved to be ridiculously hard to come by, cause i had planed to use one for the post, but i couldnt find any anywhere

9:23 PM  
Blogger kate said...

I like you!

10:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks so much for this. I only ever had The Shapiros album so this is a great sampler. Back when I was more in to indiepop during the mid 90's I couldn't afford a lot of the music so I never got around to hearing some of Pam's music. Thanks again.

7:57 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Washington City Paper's music blog gave you props for this. Check it:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/blackplasticbag/?p=200

8:07 PM  
Blogger Mitch said...

Oh man, any chance of a repost?

11:45 AM  
Blogger Jan Sátzoc. said...

You want props? I'll give you props.


Thank you!

2:51 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.gailohara.com/images/bio-gail3.jpg

What's wrong with the above photo of Pam?

12:18 PM  
Blogger Shakeer said...

Hey wow! this sounds really great. you wouldn't mind re upping somewhere, would you?

9:29 PM  
Blogger L said...

Sorry I missed this. If you ever do re-post yet again (for those of us late arrivals), but still a great - and well-deserved- undertaking.

12:17 AM  
Blogger xmt said...

please, please, please, repost this.

7:40 PM  

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